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Arrah it's on his hands an knees he'd have to do it." The voice which replied was pitched in a much deeper and softer key, but it was heard distinctly to say, "Ay, widdy Lynch, that's the door I seed him an' a boy go through; so ye'd better rap at it an' inquire." "Faix, an' that's jist what I'll do, though I don't half belave ye."
"Well, my dear," replied Mrs Mooney, with a deprecatory smile, "that ain't an uncommon state o' things, an' you've no call to be 'ard on a poor widdy like yourself takin' a little consolation now an' then when she can get it. I just thought I'd like to comfort " "I don't want no comfort," cried Mrs Lockley in a sharp tone. "Leave me. Go away!"
"Whereby the widdy never pressed me for rint when not convanient," as he remarked afterwards to Pen, winking knowingly, and laying a finger on his nose. Pen tumbled down the step, and as he followed his companion up the creaking old stair, his knees trembled under him. He could hardly see when he entered, following the Captain, and stood in the room in her room.
For the part she played this day, the darlin', only such as she could play! 'Tis the innocent takin' the shame o' the guilty, and the tears do be comin' to me eyes. 'Tis not ould Widdy Flynn's eyes alone that's wet this day, but hearts do be weepin' for the love o' God." Rosalie suddenly opened the door, and, without another look at Charley, entered the house. "'Tis one in a million!" said Mrs.
The relations between Durdles and Deputy are of a capricious kind; for, on Durdles's turning himself about with the slow gravity of beery suddenness, Deputy makes a pretty wide circuit into the road and stands on the defensive. 'You never cried Widdy Warning before you begun to-night, says Durdles, unexpectedly reminded of, or imagining, an injury.
"I wasn't complainin', Mary." "Eh! but I know you were; and that's all t' thanks I get for sendin' you them picture postcards. You want me to bide a widdy all my life, and me nobbut thirty-five." "Is there sae mony lads i' Blackpool, that's thinkin' o' gettin' wed?" "By Gow! there is that.
Going straight off to the Holly Tree, of which a healthy shoot had been planted in the suburbs, O'Rook proceeded, according to use and wont, to "comfort the widdy." "It's a rich man I am, darlin', after all," he said, on sitting down beside her. "How so, Simon?" Simon explained. "An' would you consider yourself a poor man if you had only me?" asked the widow, with a hurt air.
Noisy and forward, offering suggestions and opinions at the pitch of his piping voice, he shrieked orders to every one with all the authority of a young lord; as in some sense he was, for he was the only son of "Widdy" Hartigan, the young and comely owner and manager of the hotel. "There, now, Jim. Could ye do that?" said one of the bystanders, banteringly.
"I'll bet me I'll buy me some lamp chimbleys and heave out this palouser. A feller can't half see what he's doin'," he grumbled as he eyed a large blot on the envelope addressed to the President. "The whole place," sourly, "looks like a widdy woman's outfit."
They are instinctively religious, and it is only because they feel on terms of such friendly intimacy with the powers above that they speak of them so often. At the Widdy Mullarkey's, Knockarney House, Ballyfuchsia, County Kerry. Och! musha bedad, man alive, but it's a fine counthry over here, and it bangs all the jewel of a view we do be havin' from the windys, begorra!
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